Dystopia - AQA GCSE Lang Paper 1

Fully resourced and planned original lessons for the teaching of AQA GCSE Language Paper 1 (with a Paper 2 Q5 opportunity as well) around the theme of Dystopia, both on the page and on screen.

The lessons focus on:

Doctor Who
Brave New World
Handmaid’s Tale
1984
The Hunger Games
A Sound of Thunder
Minority Report
Black Mirror
I, Robot

All lessons are ordered and links have been checked to ensure they work. I have incorporated a lot of videos and images for interest. There is one short story, A Sound of Thunder, which will take a few lessons to do. The others are all short extracts of larger works. Some of the material (The Handmaid’s Tale, Brave New World) means that it is more suitable for mature Y9 classes/Y10-11 classes. There are some great opportunities for class debates on the ethics of technology, time travel, social media etc. Other texts such as Frankenstein or Jekyll & Hyde could be brought in as well.

The extracts used are listed as separate word documents but they are also collated into a booklet if preferred. Lessons 7 and 8 are based on dystopia on screen and act as excellent unit wind downs.

There is no final assessment as such included in the unit - it is presumed that this unit is leading towards the sitting of a part or all of Language Paper 1.

Has been taught to high ability Y9 thus far but there is plenty of material that would interest and stretch all abilities. Feedback from the kids has been very positive so far!